This is your guide to having a great time in and near Fort Worth! I don't know about you, but I'm always looking for new things to do around town. Follow this blog and I'll give you tips. If you have anything to add, then please comment or email me at FoodTravelFortWorth@gmail.com. Enjoy! (P.S. These posts are filled with hyperlinks to subjects' websites so click away!)

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(One of my favorite trips from Fort Worth) Monahans Sand Hills. Balmoreah's Natural Spring. Davis Mountains. McDonald Observatory. Historic working cattle ranches. State Parks. We pass all of this on our way into our Trinitarian food and fun Mecca: Fort Davis, Alpine and Marfa. Due to my passion for this raw and simple part of Texas I will write in parts so you don’t fall asleep on your computer screen. I could keep an entire blog just about West Texas.

PART I: The Drive Out There The speed limit is 80 m.p.h. and the sky is as vast as the vaqueros’ vocations that have worked this land for more than 150 years. A smile always crosses my face as I leave the complications of society and the city life behind me. The drive from the Midland/Odessa airport to our destination is roughly 150 miles west and rich with undulating landscape, history and even bigger skies. I don’t know what it is about the desert, but the drive from Odessa to our Fort Davis/Marfa/Alpine destination has become an es…